Dana Kent

 Diet Book Project

370L - Nutrition Assessment Lab

Skill Area: Medical Nutrition Therapy

Assignment Title: Diet Book Narrative

What I learned: In this assignment I was exposed to a very off the wall diet.  It put into perspective how many diets that all have the same underlying principles but have slight modifications. Our country is full of dieters that find comfort in a book telling them the way they should eat.  This book also taught me how unreliable some of the information that is supposedly backed up by research really is.

Reflection to assignment: The assignment made me realize how many diet books there are at the bookstore. Since I have never been on a diet or had the desire to read a self help diet book this was an eye opening experience. I enjoyed the part of this project where we presenting our diet books, it gave good perspective on how many ideas about diet are out there.

Relevance to the profession: Being a dietitian in an outpatient clinic I am sure that almost every client will have read a diet book or is following a diet book. By doing this project and presenting it everyone in the class got a little more information on the diets that are in circulation.  It also gave perspective to how much false information there is about nutrition.